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THE PRESENT EPIDEMIC AMONG IIORSES. 
the same with impunity. The difference seems to me to consist in 
the predisposition of the constitution of the individuals to the dis- 
ease, as well as the severity of the disorder of the animal from 
whom the milk is drawn. For my own part, I have generally re- 
commended that the milk of such cows as were infected should not 
be used until five or six days have elapsed after convalescence, 
when the healthy quality of the milk will have returned. I have 
known pigs shew symptoms of the disease ten hours after taking 
the infected milk. I have also known it given to dogs and cats 
that experienced not the slightest visible ill effect. To a foal of 
mine, the milk of infected cows was given for about a week, and 
no bad result was afterwards in any degree exhibited. 
P.S. — I have just heard of several fatal cases in Westmoreland. 
One individual there has lost ten head of stock ; whence it would 
appear that the fatality there is much greater than here. Not 
knowing the treatment, I am unable to state it. 
OBSERVATIONS ON THE PRESENT EPIDEMIC 
AMONG HORSES. 
By Mr. W. WOTTON, Tiverton. 
My dear Sir, — I BEG to acknowledge the receipt of your printed 
letter with the queries attached, respecting the prevailing epidemic 
among horses, &c., and will endeavour to render such assistance 
towards the general good as my humble capacity will permit. 
The Influenza respecting which you inquire has hitherto been 
confined to the horse in my neighbourhood. I have not heard of 
one instance of its appearance in cattle, sheep, or swine ; but its 
effects have been felt among the horses far and near. 
It is by no means a general case that, because the disease shews 
itself in a large stable, all the horses in it shall become infected ; 
for in several instances that have come uuder my observation, it 
has attacked these animals almost in alternate stalls, and the others 
have not been affected by it. In one case, in a five-stalled stable, 
the middle horse escaped it, and the others, on each side, suffered 
from it in the most virulent form : thus shewing, though the stable 
must have been impregnated with the aerial poison, an extraordi- 
nary instance of the total absence of susceptibility or predisposition. 
The disease has not been confined to stable horses alone, but has 
attacked horses at grass, and colts that are kept from all communi- 
cation with others; in fact, carriage horses, hacks, farm-horses, 
and colts, have suffered indiscriminately. 
